On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 01:45:00AM -0400, Joe_Wulf wrote: > My question is this: > How do I dynamically build OS-specific kickstart anaconda-ks.cfg files for EACH > of them without having to waste > tons of hours manually installing each one simply to get that one file out of > it??? My method for handling this was to install the oldest one I could and then built a "generic" ks.cfg that could be quickly modified through a perl script or something. In my case all I have to change is the line which tells the installer where the source is: nfs --server $myserver --dir /export/kickstart/$REV This has worked for me -- I have basically carried the same ks.cfg file forward from a RedHat 8.0 installation, although I understand it won't work for RHEL 5.x since the @Everything package group has been removed. (Boo!) The second thing I did was to set up cobbler (http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/) which simplified a PXE-boot environment. The version I installed required that I built my own interactive menu to select the PXE profile to install, but I understand that later versions include this functionality. I have successfully PXE installed (currently... eight?) different versions of RedHat using this method, both real machines and VMware systems. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | dave@xxxxxxxxxx | http://www.xdroop.com
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